What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Researcher Leader position at Houston Methodist Hospital?
Job Summary
The Nurse Researcher Leader position at Houston Methodist Hospital is responsible for spearheading the development, coordination, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of nursing research activities. This role works closely with the Director and Manager for Nursing Science to strategically plan and outline priority initiatives based on hospital quality measures.
Main Responsibilities
- Serves as a consultant to nursing leadership, executives, and nurses to develop, implement, and sustain evidence-based high-impact initiatives. Demonstrates effective communication skills to establish and maintain a collaborative team environment.
- Promotes, supports, and facilitates individuals engaging in research activities to advance research in practice: evidence-based practice, research utilization, and research dissemination. Collaborates and develops innovative programs to educate, mentor, and enhance the knowledge of nursing staff.
- Serves as an active member of the Research Council. Coordinates, guides, leads, and provides support for council activities and serves as the liaison to the nursing shared governance structure.
- Conducts self in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Fosters staff engagement by demonstrating active listening, requesting, and acknowledging feedback, providing rationale when appropriate, and supporting organizational goals.
Key Functions
Service:- Facilitates and directs the development of interdepartmental and interprofessional research activities, including generating individual and/or group programs of research.
- Encourages and promotes nursing publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Identifies nursing quality metrics outliers and creates evidence-based nursing interventions for improvement. Supports hospital efforts to improve quality care, linking research to improved patient outcomes.
- Plans, directs, and ensures execution and sustainability of all initiatives to ensure that the goals of the program are met. In collaboration with the Director, develops program outcome measures and monitors for sustainability.
- Conducts investigator-initiated research that supports and adds to nursing's scientific foundation.
- Develops initiatives and is held accountable for increasing the number of HM nursing research, EBP, and quality improvement dissemination activities at the national and international level.
- Generates and communicates new ideas to lead teams to creative strategies that improve quality or service and impact entity departments and address organization or department priorities.
- Fosters an institutional environment conducive to the conduct of inquiry, research, and evidence-based practice, as evidenced by the number of nurse-generated projects.
